Thesaurus / palisade
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“Usually what happens when you have a palisade, it’s a defensive work, and inside, you would have had the buildings and the structure,” she said.
FORMER JESUIT PLANTATION MAY HOLD QUARTERS OF THE ENSLAVEDMICHAEL RUANENOVEMBER 9, 2020WASHINGTON POSTGrendel means, originally, no more than a bar or rod, or a palisade or lattice-work made of such bars or rods.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 178, MARCH 26, 1853VARIOUSMany of these round houses were built close together, and then surrounded by a palisade made of tree trunks.
THE STORY OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIESH. A. (HLNE ADELINE) GUERBERThe next type is found in the monastery of St. Bride, which was simply a circular palisade encircling a sacred fire.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYIt seems that the citadel of Athens had been formerly surrounded by a wooden palisade.
XERXESJACOB ABBOTTBut what she saw in the cheerful June sky beyond the palisade made her body go clammy-cold with horror.
SHAMANROBERT SHEAA moment later a dark head crowned with feathers appeared above the palisade.
SHAMANROBERT SHEAThe fort consisted of about one hundred small houses surrounded by a palisade, or wall of heavy stakes, twenty-five feet high.
FOUR AMERICAN INDIANSEDSON L. WHITNEYYet that English stronghold, that log palisade, was a prize out of reach of the chief and his warriors.
FOUR AMERICAN INDIANSEDSON L. WHITNEYA snow of several inches in depth had fallen, and within the circle enclosed by the palisade not a single track was to be seen.
WILD WESTERN SCENESJOHN BEAUCHAMP JONESWORDS RELATED TO PALISADE
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